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electrolux professional innovation
Innovation Excellence
August 11, 2020
How Electrolux Professional Achieved Strategic Res...
Never before in history have companies all over the world and in every conceivable industry... - Read More
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electrolux professional innovation
connectivity as a strategy
Industry 4.0
July 28, 2020
How Toyota Helps Customers Turn Information into I...
Toyota Material Handling Europe helps businesses of all sizes across Europe meet today’s material handling... - Read More
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connectivity as a strategy
virtual reality workplace
Innovation Excellence
July 22, 2020
Time to Transform the Way we Work
The mass exodus has begun. During the COVID-19 crisis, hundreds of millions of office workers... - Read More
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virtual reality workplace
digital business models
Industry 4.0
July 13, 2020
Questions on Digital Business Models in Post-Coron...
Frank Piller, a professor at Aachen University and co-director of the Institute for Technology and... - Read More
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digital business models
covid 19 digital business moels
Industry 4.0
June 10, 2020
The Future of Digital Business Models for Industry...
Position paper by the expert group "Digital Business Models for Industrie 4.0" (AG 6) of... - Read More
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covid 19 digital business moels
hoshin kanri process
Enterprise Excellence
June 02, 2020
How to Deploy Hoshin Kanri Successfully
With businesses facing unprecedented challenges in modern times, being able to plan a direction for... - Read More
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hoshin kanri process
Additive manufacturing COVID 19
Industry 4.0
May 08, 2020
Tackling COVID-19 with Additive Manufacturing
With businesses all over the globe facing unprecedented manufacturing disruption, and healthcare concerns becoming the... - Read More
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Additive manufacturing COVID 19
Q&A with Tim Eschert
Industry 4.0
April 27, 2020
Managing Long-term Production Disruption
The below post is a summary of the Q&A that took place on the 15th... - Read More
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Q&A with Tim Eschert
Smart factory implementation guide
Industry 4.0
April 15, 2020
How Tetra Pak Successfully Integrated Smart Manufa...
Founded in 1951, Tetra Pak was born from a single innovation. The first of its... - Read More
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Smart factory implementation guide
U.S. Ventilator Production Growth Chart
Enterprise Excellence
April 06, 2020
Solving the COVID-19 Ventilator Shortage
This is a republication of an article published in the World Economic Forum Agenda, April 2,... - Read More
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U.S. Ventilator Production Growth Chart
Structuring innovation process
Innovation Excellence
March 26, 2020
Structuring your innovation process in pursuit of ...
Q: How to evaluate innovation impact at the ideation stage? This is a critical part... - Read More
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Structuring innovation process
The Leadership Network Learning Provider of the Year
Innovation Excellence
March 25, 2020
The Leadership Network wins an award at the Learni...
To win a Learning Provider of the Year award means joining a prestigious and exclusive... - Read More
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The Leadership Network Learning Provider of the Year
Lean empathy management Toyota
Enterprise Excellence
March 18, 2020
Leading teams with empathy - the Toyota way
Toyota is a brand that embodies production precision driven by meticulous management. Synonymous with excellence,... - Read More
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Lean empathy management Toyota
Supply chain management
Supply Chain 4.0
March 12, 2020
Navigating your Supply Chain Digitalisation Strategy
The below post is a summary of the Q&A that took place on the 14th February... - Read More
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Supply chain management
Operational excellence training
Innovation Excellence
March 04, 2020
Jim Shaw joins the immersive learning revolution
The Leadership Network® (TLN) announced today the appointment of the former Chief Digital Officer at... - Read More
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Operational excellence training
Smart factory
Industry 4.0
March 02, 2020
How Leading Manufacturers Overcome Smart Factory I...
Three case studies from Industry 4.0 pioneers in Germany The rapid development of sophisticated Industrial... - Read More
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Smart factory
Innovation trends
Innovation Excellence
February 19, 2020
5 Industries That will be Turned Upside Down Over ...
Can you remember the top 15 companies of 2000? How about 2010? Last year, even?... - Read More
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Innovation trends
Internationalising the Toyota Production System (TPS)
Enterprise Excellence
February 11, 2020
Scaling the Lean mindset.
When Toyota Material Handling joined forces with European corporation BT Industries, they faced the challenge... - Read More
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Internationalising the Toyota Production System (TPS)
Toyota Lean Transformation
Enterprise Excellence
December 12, 2019
When the Sensei goes away.
Thousands of businesses in the West strive to replicate Toyota’s culture of operational excellence into... - Read More
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Toyota Lean Transformation
Chief Digital Officer
Innovation Excellence
December 04, 2019
In conversation with a former Chief Digital Office...
50% of the traditional companies on the Fortune 500 have disappeared since 2000. One of... - Read More
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Chief Digital Officer
Executive training
Industry 4.0
November 25, 2019
In conversation with Managing Director at Hugo Boss
Joachim has been on the digital transformation journey for over three years now at his... - Read More
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Executive training
GEMBA VR
Innovation Excellence
November 18, 2019
GEMBA® by The Leadership Network named finalist f...
The Leadership Network (TLN) announced today that their virtual reality learning platform GEMBA® has been... - Read More
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GEMBA VR
Executive training
Industry 4.0
November 12, 2019
How to integrate Lean management with digital tran...
Q: How to combine organic Lean with top-down digitalization initiatives? This question comes up very... - Read More
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Executive training
Executive training
Innovation Excellence
November 07, 2019
The Leadership Network® named a finalist for the ...
The Leadership Network (TLN) announced today that it has been shortlisted as a finalist for... - Read More
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Executive training
Digital economy roadmap
Industry 4.0
November 01, 2019
Q&A with Fabrizio: How to reorganise your company ...
Fabrizio Salvador is known around the world as a leading expert in operations management. He... - Read More
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Digital economy roadmap
Data scientists
Innovation Excellence
October 16, 2019
How Amazon and Nissan make data science their key ...
Big data and data science is all over the place from the last decade and... - Read More
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Data scientists
Toyota Kata
Enterprise Excellence
October 10, 2019
Busting Lean Myths with Jeff Liker
Myth 1: Lean is primarily about doing more with less, which means reducing cost. It’s... - Read More
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Toyota Kata
Digital strategies
Industry 4.0
October 03, 2019
A 4-step roadmap for creating digitally-enabled or...
Many managers struggle to see a clear path towards creating digitally -enabled organizations. It is... - Read More
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Digital strategies
Digital strategy
Innovation Excellence
September 26, 2019
Caterpillar’s Five Proven Steps to Digital Excellence
Everyone will agree by now that digital transformation cannot be treated as just another project... - Read More
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Digital strategy
Rich communication services
Enterprise Excellence
September 11, 2019
Agility, Chinese Style
Most Western companies have a functional/hierarchical structure. This was ideal for running a business efficiently in... - Read More
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Rich communication services
Change management digitalisation
Industry 4.0
September 04, 2019
Q&A with Frank Piller: Skills required of managers...
In the second part of the Q&A series, addressing executive challenges on leading the Factory... - Read More
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Change management digitalisation
Steve Jobs Apple strategy
Innovation Excellence
August 27, 2019
Is the iPhone the best project in history?
If you're thinking about launching a strategic project, or are currently doing so, I strongly... - Read More
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Steve Jobs Apple strategy
smart factory
Industry 4.0
August 20, 2019
Q&A with Frank Piller: Driving digital transformat...
How far should we go in connecting processes and smart technology and what would the... - Read More
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smart factory
radical innovation
Innovation Excellence
August 14, 2019
How to fail faster – and why you should
We’ve all heard the phrase “fail fast,” especially if we’re familiar with the agile approach.... - Read More
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radical innovation
Continuous improvement
Enterprise Excellence
August 08, 2019
Q&A with Jeffrey Liker Part II: How to achieve Lea...
Q: What is the impact of the new ways of reducing hierarchy to be more... - Read More
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Continuous improvement
TOYOTA KATA
Enterprise Excellence
July 31, 2019
Q&A with Jeffrey Liker: How to get your management...
Jeff Liker is a 13 times a Shingo Prize winner for Research Excellence. He is... - Read More
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TOYOTA KATA
Airbus case study
Industry 4.0
July 25, 2019
Placing customers at the heart of transformation w...
With digitalization allowing companies to accelerate the pace of innovation and making agility a key... - Read More
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Airbus case study
Radical innovation
Supply Chain 4.0
July 18, 2019
How Electrolux Achieved 60% Reduction in Co2 Emissions
The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change set the world a clear target: we must... - Read More
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Radical innovation
Radical innovation
Innovation Excellence
July 09, 2019
What WIRED's former editor discovered on a global ...
I recently wrote a book Non-Bullshit Innovation: Radical Ideas from the World’s Smartest Minds. The book... - Read More
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Radical innovation
Coaching
Industry 4.0
July 03, 2019
How to Inspire Your Teams to Change When Feedback ...
There are common misconceptions in the workplace around the definition and value of feedback. Feedback... - Read More
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Coaching
Toyota Production System
Enterprise Excellence
June 24, 2019
How to apply Lean in Non-Production Functions
This is an introductory article about applying Lean to Non-Production workplaces, including Office work.  To... - Read More
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Toyota Production System
From products to services
Industry 4.0
June 13, 2019
Innovation Brief Part 2: Top servitization case studies
In the second part of my ‘innovation brief’, I share insights on next-generation technologies and... - Read More
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From products to services
Digitalisation
Industry 4.0
June 06, 2019
Four case studies on how digitalisation is transfo...
In this short video, Frank Piller, an award-winning professor and future manufacturing expert, will share... - Read More
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Digitalisation
Toyota Lean Manufacturing
Enterprise Excellence
May 31, 2019
An insight into the ultimate Lean Tour in Japan wi...
The Leadership Network, along with 21 global Lean leaders, travelled across 3 cities in Japan... - Read More
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Toyota Lean Manufacturing
innovation
Innovation Excellence
May 27, 2019
Innovation Brief by Jim Shaw - Chief Digital Offic...
Having attended quite a few major events in the digital space, I have managed to... - Read More
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innovation
supply chain
Supply Chain 4.0
May 20, 2019
Johnson & Johnson Supply Chain Executive’s Scout...
Israel is the Start-Up Nation Silicon Wadi (Wadi means Valley in Arabic) is an area... - Read More
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supply chain
smart factory skills
Industry 4.0
May 08, 2019
Addressing a lack of skill base in your company
In the third and last blog post within the “Tackling your Industry 4.0 challenges” series,... - Read More
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smart factory skills
Digital transformation
Innovation Excellence
May 01, 2019
Five Proven Steps for Driving Digital Transformation
Every single industry has a “digital destiny” – an inevitable and unavoidable future that will... - Read More
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Digital transformation
supply management
Supply Chain 4.0
April 24, 2019
What’s Ahead For Supply Chain Executives In 2019?
“It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future” so said Danish physicist Niels Bohr... - Read More
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supply management
great leaders
Innovation Excellence
April 16, 2019
Now Unlearn Everything that Made you Successful
A changing basis of competition An organism’s fitness for natural selection determines how successfully it... - Read More
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great leaders
gemba
Industry 4.0
April 10, 2019
How Ford optimises design process with VR
Companies such as Ford are leveraging VR as a collaboration tool to enable better and... - Read More
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gemba
industry 4.0
Industry 4.0
April 03, 2019
Clarify your Industry 4.0 value proposition
In the second blog post within the “Tackling your Industry 4.0 challenges” series, Frank Piller,... - Read More
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industry 4.0
Toyota kata lean
Enterprise Excellence
March 27, 2019
How Toyota Kata can transform your lean deployment
The Toyota Way was defined in an internal 2001 Toyota document as continuous improvement and... - Read More
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Toyota kata lean
smart voice assistant
Industry 4.0
March 19, 2019
Voice opportunities beyond the smart speaker
There is a shift taking place today in how humans interact with technology that will... - Read More
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smart voice assistant
what is machine learning
Industry 4.0
March 13, 2019
Your guide to piloting machine learning
In today’s video in the Machine Learning myth buster series, I’m covering the following myths:... - Read More
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what is machine learning
what is digital twin
Industry 4.0
March 05, 2019
How to scale intra-factory data connections in you...
What are the challenges when implementing Industry 4.0? It’s one of the most common questions... - Read More
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what is digital twin
artificial intelligence implementation
Industry 4.0
February 25, 2019
Five key steps to get a real ROI in your digital t...
During November, I traveled far and wide, attending some of the leading manufacturing events across... - Read More
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artificial intelligence implementation
leader standard work
Enterprise Excellence
February 11, 2019
Teaching a Proud Japanese Company New Tricks of Lean
Teaching a Proud Japanese Company New Tricks of Lean:  Going Deep before Going Wide Jeffrey... - Read More
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leader standard work
customer experience strategy
Innovation Excellence
February 05, 2019
Want to think like Amazon? Start from the receipt
What’s in a receipt? Hardly seems like a topic of competitive advantage, operational excellence, customer... - Read More
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customer experience strategy
predictive innovation in product development
Industry 4.0
January 29, 2019
How to develop billion-dollar product opportunities
Internet of Things and Big Data have all changed manufacturing and marketing functions. In manufacturing,... - Read More
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predictive innovation in product development
design thinking model
Innovation Excellence
January 22, 2019
Optimise your design thinking process with LEGO SE...
By Robert Rasmussen, LEGO SERIOUS PLAY EXPERT and former Head of R&D at LEGO Co-author... - Read More
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design thinking model
Toyota Kata Lean
Enterprise Excellence
January 16, 2019
How to use Kata to develop scientific thinking
Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) has long been recognised as a foundation of any successful improvement process. Nevertheless,... - Read More
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Toyota Kata Lean
Alibaba cloud business
Innovation Excellence
January 08, 2019
Alibaba’s 100% growth rate to world dominance
The Leadership Network sat down with Xuan Jin, Lead Solutions Architect at Alibaba Cloud, to... - Read More
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Alibaba cloud business
successful innovation strategy
Innovation Excellence
December 20, 2018
The most interesting retail experiment that no-one...
The LEGO Dead Ocean Strategy Near my home in Philadelphia, LEGO just opened its tenth... - Read More
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successful innovation strategy
solution to an inconsistent Lean approach
Enterprise Excellence
December 11, 2018
Virtual reality as a solution to an inconsistent L...
In the final video of the series, Peter Hines, an award-winning Lean expert, goes over... - Read More
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solution to an inconsistent Lean approach
Data management machine learning
Industry 4.0
December 03, 2018
How to prepare your dataset for machine learning?
In the latest video, Tim Eschert, machine learning expert, goes over the following two myths... - Read More
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Data management machine learning
TPS key performance indicators
Enterprise Excellence
November 26, 2018
Is OEE a Useful Key Performance Indicator?
Total Productive Maintenance (TPS) has become the industry standard for maintaining equipment in the best... - Read More
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TPS key performance indicators
Industry 4.0 transformation masterclass
Industry 4.0
November 22, 2018
Benchmark your Industry 4.0 Transformation against...
London, United Kingdom – 14 Nov. 2018 – Today, The Leadership Network has announced its... - Read More
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Industry 4.0 transformation masterclass
Internet of things strategy examples
Innovation Excellence
November 19, 2018
Building Your Digital Strategy – The Amazon Way
An Overview of The Amazon Way on IoT How is digital disruption impacting your industry? ... - Read More
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Internet of things strategy examples
Brand innovation crisis Gibson guitars
Innovation Excellence
November 12, 2018
An Open Letter to Gibson’s New CEO
Fifty years ago, when Eric Clapton played lead guitar on the Beatles’ “While My Guitar... - Read More
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Brand innovation crisis Gibson guitars
Machine learning manufacturing
Industry 4.0
November 05, 2018
What’s the difference between Six Sigma, Data An...
Tim Eschert’s new myth buster series on Machine Learning addresses the differences between Six Sigma,... - Read More
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Machine learning manufacturing
Alibaba cloud
Innovation Excellence
October 30, 2018
Alibaba helps executives make their digital transf...
London, United Kingdom – 22 October 2018 – Today, The Leadership Network has announced its... - Read More
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Alibaba cloud
3D printing benefits
Industry 4.0
October 23, 2018
Utilising the benefits of 3D printing
A radical shift in manufacturing In 2012, the Economist brought a special report, hailing 3D... - Read More
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3D printing benefits
Implementing a lean system
Enterprise Excellence
October 16, 2018
The power of exceptional greens
Abel Martínez is a Global Operational Excellence Director at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts). Abel has... - Read More
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Implementing a lean system
Implementing a lean system
Enterprise Excellence
October 10, 2018
How to lead a global lean transformation and make ...
 Leading a global lean transformation programme is not easy. In fact, 90% of lean transformations... - Read More
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Implementing a lean system
Supply chains ecommerce
Supply Chain 4.0
October 03, 2018
Death on the High Street? How e-commerce and socia...
Western society is on the verge of a revolution in the way we shop. The... - Read More
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Supply chains ecommerce
Nestlé operations
Enterprise Excellence
September 24, 2018
How Nestlé executives drive Innovation and Contin...
Nestlé’s Product Technology Centre (PTC) in York is at the forefront of Confectionery Research and... - Read More
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Nestlé operations
Chief digital officer
Innovation Excellence
September 19, 2018
The Rise and Role of the Chief Digital Officer
To have or have not? Do companies really need to appoint a CDO – a... - Read More
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Chief digital officer
emotional stages of organizational change
Enterprise Excellence
September 12, 2018
Why change is like grieving – and grieving is li...
Think about it.  The process we call grieving is one of the most intense emotional... - Read More
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emotional stages of organizational change
Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0
September 05, 2018
Your framework for a successful Industry 4.0 busin...
If you live in Germany, you must have seen electric DHL delivery car, produced by... - Read More
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Industry 4.0
Lean culture
Enterprise Excellence
August 23, 2018
Top 5 Lean culture implementation challenges addressed
Watch Peter Hines address top challenges senior executives struggle with on their journey to Lean... - Read More
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Lean culture
Change management
Enterprise Excellence
August 17, 2018
Change – the Final Frontier (with apologies to S...
I have had the privilege of working at some exceptional companies – companies that aspired... - Read More
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Change management
The Toyota Way
Enterprise Excellence
August 09, 2018
Exclusive insights on the Toyota Way from Jeff Liker
You have authored or co-authored over 85 articles and book chapters and 15 books on... - Read More
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The Toyota Way
How to reduce cost with machine learning
Industry 4.0
August 01, 2018
How to reduce cost with machine learning: case study
Industrial Manufacturing Falling Behind When we look at the buzzwords of the Industry 4.0 world,... - Read More
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How to reduce cost with machine learning
Lean product development
Enterprise Excellence
July 24, 2018
So what exactly is Lean in Lean Product Development?
A couple of stories… When I was a very young lad, I worked in product... - Read More
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Lean product development
Radical innovation
Innovation Excellence
July 16, 2018
How to catalyse radical innovation and redefine th...
I define radical innovation as a serendipitous result of many self-organizing, interdependent employees learning from... - Read More
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Radical innovation
What is outcome based business model
Innovation Excellence
July 10, 2018
Your guide to the IoT-enabled Outcome-Based Busine...
I’ve worked in the project-management business essentially my entire career, leading teams of people to... - Read More
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What is outcome based business model
How to implement Lean
Enterprise Excellence
July 03, 2018
How to implement Lean in five steps
The term Lean Production was first used in 1990 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)... - Read More
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How to implement Lean
Nokia manufacturing Factory of the Future
Industry 4.0
June 28, 2018
Nokia – Still Connecting People
Today, it’s hard to imagine a world without Internet connectivity. We stand at the edge... - Read More
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Nokia manufacturing Factory of the Future
Scientific thinking and Lean
Enterprise Excellence
June 26, 2018
What is the science in Lean?
Co-authored by Mike Rother - an American researcher who introduced the widespread business practices of... - Read More
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Scientific thinking and Lean
Industrial IoT platforms
Industry 4.0
June 18, 2018
Platforms for the industrial IoT: choosing the ope...
The platform economy is a central topic today in all economic sectors - but above... - Read More
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Industrial IoT platforms
Lean problem solving
Enterprise Excellence
June 12, 2018
The secret problem solving weapon of Lean organiza...
Engineers are bred to solve problems.  From the first day of school, it is part... - Read More
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Lean problem solving
IoT implementation
Innovation Excellence
June 06, 2018
Former Amazon Executive on How to Lead Your IoT St...
Lack of expertise to lead digitisation initiatives, employee pushback and no overarching strategy for digitisation... - Read More
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IoT implementation
Product innovation
Innovation Excellence
June 01, 2018
Lessons from LEGO: What do you do when your curren...
On March 6, LEGO announced its results for 2017. Sales declined by 8% and profits... - Read More
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Product innovation
Digital transformation
Industry 4.0
May 29, 2018
How to succeed at digital transformation
How to Succeed at Digital Transformation: Lessons from Chief Information Officer of GE Aviation David... - Read More
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Digital transformation
Lean Product Development
Enterprise Excellence
May 22, 2018
Why worry about Lean if we can innovate like Tesla?
I am a huge Elon Musk fan.  Coolest engineer ever. Honestly, he makes Tony Stark... - Read More
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Lean Product Development
Supply chain optimisation
Supply Chain 4.0
May 17, 2018
We Are All In The Supply Chain Business
The ongoing transformation of our industrial supply chain is hardly the first of its kind.... - Read More
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Supply chain optimisation
Supply chain optimisation
Supply Chain 4.0
May 14, 2018
How to Implement Data-Driven Supply Chain and Incr...
In a recent study from Accenture, 97 percent of the senior executives surveyed see great... - Read More
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Supply chain optimisation
Gemba walk best practice
Enterprise Excellence
May 08, 2018
Lessons from Toyota: How to do a Gemba Walk and Wh...
The Purpose of Gemba Walks I recall interviewing executives in a conference room at Toyota’s... - Read More
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Gemba walk best practice
the amazon way
Innovation Excellence
April 30, 2018
10 Rules Behind Amazon’s Success You Can Use on ...
Since publishing my book The Amazon Way in June 2014, I’ve collaborated with hundreds of... - Read More
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innovation factory
Innovation Excellence
April 27, 2018
Inside Alibaba - Jack Ma's Digital Innovation Factory
Artificial intelligence. Augmented reality. Facial recognition. Connected “internet” vehicles. Global virtual marketplaces. App-based digital payment... - Read More
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Two most fundamental principles of Lean Product Development are Reduction of Waste, and the Deming Circle.
Enterprise Excellence
April 24, 2018
Taking the first step: getting started on your Lea...
It’s intimidating.  The time never seems to be right.  There is always a crisis or... - Read More
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Two most fundamental principles of Lean Product Development are Reduction of Waste, and the Deming Circle.
how to implement innovation
Innovation Excellence
April 17, 2018
How to Win in the Innovation Economy
Rowan Gibson, described by Forbes as ‘one of the most recognized thought leaders in business... - Read More
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Industry 4.0 business model
Industry 4.0
April 13, 2018
Is your business model Industry 4.0-ready?
Industry 4.0 is often discussed from a technological perspective of machine learning, algorithms, smart sensors,... - Read More
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Industry 4.0 business model
Toyota production system and Kata
Enterprise Excellence
April 12, 2018
How to Implement Lean as a Culture and Workflow
Jeffrey shares his two decades worth of insights, captured in his international bestseller ‘The Toyota... - Read More
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Dyson innovation
Innovation Excellence
November 17, 2016
Innovation The Dyson Way
Sir James Dyson is lauded as one of the greatest innovators of our time, but... - Read More
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Innovation practices that saved Lego
Innovation Excellence
November 07, 2016
5 Sustainable Innovation Practices that Saved LEGO
Every second, seven boxes of LEGO are sold. For every person in the world, there... - Read More
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Toyota Lean manufacturing
Enterprise Excellence
November 03, 2016
Deconstructing Toyota's success
Since its founding in 1937, Toyota has challenged the status quo to influence the future... - Read More
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How Nike used Lean
Enterprise Excellence
October 31, 2016
How Nike Used Lean to Solve its Sweatshop Problem
Businesses typically adopt Lean to streamline production and improve efficiency, but recent research from MIT... - Read More
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Festo brand innovation
Industry 4.0
October 26, 2016
Natural Selection: The Key to Festo’s Brand-Driv...
Festo is a globally operating, independent family enterprise that supplies pneumatic and electrical automation technology,... - Read More
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Supply chain analysis
Supply Chain 4.0
October 19, 2016
Marmitegate and Exploding Phones: What’s Going o...
Disagreements between suppliers and retailers are relatively common, but not one that cuts off the... - Read More
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Supply chain management definition
Supply Chain 4.0
October 17, 2016
We Need A New Supply Chain Management Definition
Delivering the right product, at the right place, at the right time. This age-old challenge... - Read More
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Disney Big Data
Industry 4.0
October 05, 2016
How Disney Creates Digital Magic with Big Data
For over 90 years, Disney has prided itself on producing magical guest experiences that few... - Read More
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Disney Big Data
How to implement Lean successfully
Enterprise Excellence
September 05, 2016
Five Lean Myths and the Reality of Thinking Lean
You can only imagine how exciting it was for industrial engineers and researchers when they were... - Read More
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use Kaizen for continuous improvement
Enterprise Excellence
October 19, 2015
Is Innovation achieved through Kaizen?
The Japanese term Kaizen made popular by Toyota is a philosophy that assumes every aspect... - Read More
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why you need to do a Gemba walk
Innovation Excellence
October 15, 2015
3 Reasons Why Gemba Walks Drive Innovation
The Japanese word Gemba, made popular by Toyota and used throughout the manufacturing industries, translates to... - Read More
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how to implement innovation
Innovation Excellence
October 08, 2015
The Substitutes Threat
Try to picture this scenario. A traffic technology company invests in a technology, where intelligent... - Read More
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How to sustain Lean systems
Enterprise Excellence
October 08, 2015
How to sustain Lean systems in your business
The answer is not as esoteric and arcane as you might imagine. It is actually... - Read More
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innovation management
Innovation Excellence
August 31, 2015
Addition By Subtraction Works
Before you can add, you must subtract. Canada's parliament has just enacted that it believes... - Read More
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how to be a successful leader
Innovation Excellence
August 31, 2015
The Importance of Recognition
Of all the tools and tricks in the leaders' tool bag, none is quite as... - Read More
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how to support innovation
Innovation Excellence
August 31, 2015
Experiment to Get Support for Your Innovative Ideas
Trying to do things differently or to do different things within an organization is hard.... - Read More
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training and coaching strategy
Innovation Excellence
August 25, 2015
How to Keep Coaching Simple
If coaching is to succeed, it must be simple and specific. That's why I am... - Read More
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kodak disruption
Innovation Excellence
August 21, 2015
Optionality as a disruption strategy
Executives responsible for responding to disruption need to learn a new language. I say this... - Read More
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change management
Innovation Excellence
August 21, 2015
Do you Know Your Disruption From Your Innovation?
If you want a rundown on what the experts think of innovation then read the... - Read More
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change management
successful disruption
Innovation Excellence
August 21, 2015
Don't Be Afraid of Upsetting People - A Negative R...
South Park is a highly successful cartoon sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone... - Read More
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supply chain strategy
Supply Chain 4.0
August 20, 2015
From Supply Chain to Value Networks
Introduction Supply Chain Management has become a must in most multinationals; this was not the... - Read More
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daily strategy for leaders
Innovation Excellence
August 20, 2015
Ascending the Mount Everest of Leadership on a Dai...
Since the time of early humans, the influence exerted by leaders like kings, queens, military... - Read More
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innovation lessons
Innovation Excellence
July 31, 2015
The Innovation Phrases We Hate the Most
The term itself, innovation - can alienate many people, but even within the professional innovation... - Read More
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